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Why should you order the Guide to Worldwide Postal-Code and Address Formats?
Because you will

Save on international delivery costs.
Increase deliverability.
Reduce delivery time.

• Letters returned for incorrect addressing cost in postage, printing, and staff time and in reduced or late response to your correspondence. So, your mailings create higher expenses and lower income than necessary.

• Perhaps as importantly, your corporate image suffers when poorly addressed mail is delivered.

Let us keep you updated on these changes – and save yourself time, effort and money!

Merry Law contacted more than 200 postal authorities to check the information we publish. Of course that's not all because the Guide provides not only the "official" information from the postal authorities but also what mailers are seeing and experiencing day-to-day. Merry talks to large mailers and experts in international postal affairs and check web sites to verify what the posts tell us.

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• the 2010 Guide to Worldwide Postal-Code and Address Formats plus

• a free one-year subscription to the Guide on WorldVu's web site,

Our Web site for the purchasers to the Guide to Worldwide Postal-Code and Address Formats, tracks these changes between printed editions. All the material in the Guide is available online with the added bonus of a "What's New" page posting the information as we get new details. With your purchase of the 2010 printed edition, you will receive a free one-year subscription to the web site information.

The 2010 edition of the Guide to Worldwide Postal-Code and Address Formats was published in February, 2010. Access for one year to the subscriber portion of this Web site is now included with each copy of the Guide. The printed book contains over 220 pages of information (8-1/2 by 11 inches, approximately 21.5 by 28 cm.), covering more than 200 countries and territories. All the information contained in the print edition is also available on this Web site by subscription and updates to the information between printed editions.

Click to see a sample of the 2010 edition of the Guide in Adobe Acrobat format (pdf). For pricing detail, see the order form. If you are interested in a quantity purchase or a site license, please contact Merry Law (telephone +1 410-522-4223).

Still not convinced you need the Guide.? Did you know there were more than 85 changes in postal formats between 2000 and 2008?

• More than 75 countries and territories made at least one change in their address format.

• Over 50 of those countries and territories established a new postal code or changed their code format.

• Ten countries made more than one change in either their postal code or address format.

The changes aren’t stopping there. More occurred between 2008 and 2010 and we already have new announcements of others.

• Ireland is establishing a country-wide postal coding system.

• Tanzania is creating a totally new addressing system, including street addresses and a postal code.

• Will there be new countries? Kosovo? Kurdistan? What will happen in Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabach, the Sudan, Turkistan, and the Palestinian Territories?

• What countries will establish – or change – their postal codes? The Universal Postal Union is encouraging the establishment of postal codes. A number of countries have planned, but not yet instituted, postal codes.

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